P v. BOYER
Filed 5/11/06
IN THE SUPREME COURT OF CALIFORNIA
THE PEOPLE, )
)
v. )
Defendant and Appellant. ) Super. Ct. No. C-51866
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Story Continued from Part I ………
After defendant left home, the Boyers moved to a condominium complex on East Oxford Drive in La Mirada. Around August 1980, defendant periodically visited them there.[1] During this period, Dorothy sensed that defendant had a continuing drug problem and was not choosing his friends well.
Dorothy indicated that she and Del tried to visit defendant in prison, but were treated so badly that defendant urged them not to return. Thereafter, they spoke with him by telephone twice a week, and he regularly sent handmade birthday and holiday cards with his own drawings and cartoons. Dorothy said defendant had often expressed remorse for killing the Harbitzes.
Nancy Ann Lucia was the neighbor of the Boyers' who helped arrange his adoption. She accompanied the Boyers to pick up defendant and his sister from their natural mother. Nancy confirmed defendant's poor environment and physical condition at that time, as well as the obvious lack of bonding between child and natural mother. Nancy said defendant was â€
